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Let me start by saying that I've successfully installed rsyslog on CentOS 4.1 and it was as easy as pie. I am trying to install it on an old Fedora box, and it compiles and installs without error. However, it hangs when I try to start it. Any ideas?

Thanks. Great software, btw.

• Custom written rsyslog.conf?
• Maintenance Contract?
• Installation support?

Hi,

I've no immediate idea, but it would probably be helpful to run it interactively with the "-d -n" options. That generates quite a lot of debug output.

Rainer

Thanks for the prompt response. I took your suggestion and ran it with the "-d -n" options. This is the error message it returned:

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Called fprintlog, logging to FILE
Called fprintlog, logging to MYSQL
Called logerr, msg: db error (1046): No database selected

logmsg: syslog.err<43>, flags 4, from infonet, msg rsyslogd: db error (1046): No database selected
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It prints that error many, many times and then finally croaks with a segmentation fault. I checked my MySQL setup, and everything appears to be ok. I have created the Syslog database using the createDB.sql file. I have other things using MySQL on the same server, so I know MySQL as a whole is working ok. I also confirmed that the MySQL user has appropriate priviledges.

Resolved. Still not sure what was causing the error, but on a hunch, I copied the executable from the install that worked and replaced the version that was causing the error. That fixed it.